Carrier for type-distributing machines.



No. 652,480. Patented June 26, 1900.

c. n. HUGHES. CARRIER FOR TYPfDlSTRIBUTING MACHINES.

(Application filed NOV. 6, 1899.)

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UNITED' STATES? CHARLES D. HUGHES,

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oAnRIER FOR TYPE-DISTRIBUTING MACHINES;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,480, dated June 26,1906.

, Application filed November 6,1899. Serial No. 735,859. cumin.)

have invented certain new and useful Im-' provements in Carriers forType-Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specificationsufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the inventionappertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to type-carriers of the class shown and describedin Letters Patent to L. K. Johnson, dated July 19, 1881, No. 244,721,and to W. A. Lorenz, E. G. Parkhurst, and L. K. Johnson, dated July 19,1881, No. 244, 724, from which the nicked types are'cjected by a levertripped by the entrance of reciprocating feelers into the nicks. Inorder to afford the necessary number of feeler combinations for thedifferent characters of a font of type, the nicks have to be formed invarious portions in the edges of the types, some of the combinationsnecessitating the formation of the nicks at or near the middle of thetypes. As a result the smallertypes are materially weakened,especiallywhen both combination nicks are formed approximately midway of thelength of a type, and such types are bent or broken under the impact ofthose feelers which do not coincide with thenicks.

The object of my invention is to obviate this difficulty; and theinvention consists, es-

sentially, in the combination, with the ejector and with the clutch of acarrier by which a type is held therein, of an abutment which sustainsand reinforces the types midway, or approximately so, of their length,so that the impact of the reciprocating feelers is met and resistedwithout injury to even the weakest types.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a carrier andof a feelerslide. Fig. 2 is a front view of the carrier; Fig. 3, a sideView of the body of the carrier, the ejector, &c., being omitted. Fig. 4is a front view of Fig. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the ejector; Fig. 6,an elevation of the clamp; Fig. 7, a horizontal section upon the planeof line 7 7, Fig. 3; Fig. 8, an elevation of the carrier, showing amodification of structure;

Fig. 9, an elevation of the carrier, the forward end of the clamp beingbroken off to show the relation of the nicks in the type to thereinforcing abutment or block. Fig. 10 is an elevation of a modifiedform of clamp, in which the outer end is bifurcated to straddle theintermediate abutment. Fig. 11 is a similar .view of the form of clampshown in Fig. 8. Fig. 12 is a horizontal section upon plane of line 1212, Fig. 1. Fig. 13 is a view illustrating the action of the feelers ona type in an old form of carrier. Fig. 14 is a section taken upon planeof line 14 14, Fig. 5.

S represents one of the reciprocating slides carrying feelers ff, arest-lever R, and trip pin g mechanism arranged and operating after themanner disclosed in the patent to J ohnson hereinbefore referred to.

B is the body of the carrier, recessed to receive the ejector E andclamp O.

a Ct are the usual upper and lower'abutments or type-rests embraced bythe bifurcated arms 6 c of the ejector E.

j is the type floor or support for the heel of the type T.

A third or intermediate abutment a is formed upon the body of thecarrier, as will be seen more distinctly by reference to Fig. 3, itsfront edge or surface being in line with the bearing-surfaces of theother abutment-s a a. The central web (2 of the ejector E is formed withthe slot or recess 6 to admit the intermediate abutment a and allow theejector to be drawn forward by the lever B,

when the latter is tripped by the entrance of the ends of the feelers ff into nicks ttin the types when the said nicks coincide therewith. Theclamp O is also so formed as to receive and embrace the intermediate orcentral abutment a, as by the formation of a slot or recess 0, throughwhich the said central abutment 0 projects.

The nature and object of my invention will be understood by reference toFig. 3, which shows a narrow centrally-nicked type in an old form ofcarrier. It will be seen that the full impact and pressure exerted bythe'feelers f f has to be sustained by the central and weakest portionof the type, which is practically unsupported between opposed edges ofthe upper and lower abutments a a. As a result narrow sinalltypes, andeven those of larger size, which are nicked centrally, are bent orbroken by the impact of successive feelers before the feelers coincidingwith to overcome and which I obviate entirely;-

by my construction of ejector and central intermediate abutment on thecarrier-body,

as herein set 'forth,"whcreby the thrust of the feelers is directlyopposed and the types fully sustained under all conditions of size andthe web 6', having the slot or recess c and nicking.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to 'se'cure by Letters Patent,is

1-. In combination with type feeling and extractingmechanism,atype-carrierformed with a central abutment for sustaining thedle said central abutment, substantially as herein setforth.

2. In combination with type feeling and extracting mechanism, thecarrier B formed with central abutment a, the ejector E formed with theslot or recess 6 and the clamp 0 formed with the slot or recess 0, forthe purpose and substantially in the manner described.

3. In combination with type feeling and extracting mechanism, thecarrier 13 formed with the upper and lower type'abutm'ents, aa, and theintermediate abutment a, the ejector E form'ed'with the bifurcated armse, e, and

the clamp 0 formed with the slot or recess '0, for the purposeandsubstantiall yin themanner set 'forth.

CHARLES -19. nuei i'nsr Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, Gno. WM. MIATT.

